Dear Sir or Ma'am, I have set-up a very functional NAS in my home using Freenas 0.7.2.5543. I had problems when losing power to the NAS. When I'd power it back on, my Raid 5 array and other disks would say that it was not properly dismounted, until I erased the disks, reformatted and remounted. The problem would then go away. I have since put an UPS between my NAS and the power to save myself the hassle. I've tried exhaustively to activate and use the UPS feature on Freenas. I have a Belkin F6C750-AVR and have used the prescribed drivers you suggest and nothing is working. I wonder if there is a solution out there that you know about? I thought to buy another UPS, but they are expensive and if I have the same amount of trouble, it's not worth it. Some of my friends say it's impossible to setup a Freenas NAS with a UPS. I hope that isn't the case. I appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance, John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20110606/c7bbe551/attachment.html>
[This thread is really more appropriate for nut-upsuser...] On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:03 PM, John Lechanski <johnski49 at hotmail.com> wrote:> Dear Sir or Ma'am, > ? I have set-up a very functional NAS in my home using Freenas 0.7.2.5543. > I had problems when losing power to the NAS.? When I'd power it back on, my > Raid 5 array and other disks would say that it was not properly dismounted, > until I erased the disks, reformatted and remounted.? The problem would then > go away.? I have since put an UPS between my NAS and the power to save > myself the hassle.? I've tried exhaustively to activate and use the UPS > feature on Freenas.? I have a Belkin F6C750-AVR and have used the prescribed > drivers you suggest and nothing is working.The closest thing we have in the compatibility list is F6C550-AVR: http://networkupstools.org/stable-hcl.html?manufacturer=Belkin Given the state of UPS manufacturing, these two models may not be the same internally, so this is not a sure bet. Also note the support column. Help us help you: what do you mean by "nothing is working"? What have you tried? What error messages do you get?>? I wonder if there is a solution > out there that you know about?? I thought to buy another UPS, but they are > expensive and if I have the same amount of trouble, it's not worth it.When you are looking at the cost of an UPS, consider not only the base price tag, but how much time you are willing to spend fiddling with it (not to mention the cost of replacement batteries every few years). We can't guarantee anything, but if you choose an UPS with a higher "support level" on the compatibility page, you are more likely to be able to justify the higher initial cost of the hardware. -- - Charles Lepple
[please keep the list CC'd. nut-upsuser is the best place for this thread.] On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Lechanski wrote:> 1. the specifications of my ups: F6C750-AVR; it has 750VA, more > than enough to power my system, which is all that is on the ups.What are the USB Vendor ID and Product ID? You may need to open a shell for that. I haven't used Solaris USB support, so I'm not sure what commands to use.> 2. the first picture you'll see is when I unplug and plug in my ups > via USB into the same USB port of the NAS. > 3. the second picture is going to the UPS feature on Freenas > 0.7.2.5543. I have the OS running from a thumb drive and I have two > sets of drives you'll see in the pic, one a raid 5 configuration > (hard wired raid with addonics raid card) and the other is just a > free floating HDD, no back-up. > 4. the next pictures you'll see is what happens when I try > different configurations on the gui. The first pair (pic 3 & 4) are > the config and what it says on my nas. When I enter this > configuration, the nas beeps once and the screen says the first > thing you see "Broadcast Message..." then after about 5 seconds, > another beep and the second line "UPS ups at localhost is unavailable"Any log entries in syslog?> 5. picture 5 is what happens when I change my configuration, still > same error, and same reaction by nas box. > 6. the final picture is what happens when I implement a solution > that I found on-line. the gui software says success and my nas box > has no change (in other words, nothing happens on my screen when I > implement this configuration, no beeping, no nothing). I then try > to simulate a power outage by yanking the plug on the ups; the ups > is on battery and the nas keeps going as if nothing is wrong.The genericups driver cannot do error checking: http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/man/genericups.html With a USB cable, you would only use genericups if you were sure that the UPS is a basic contact-closure model with a USB-to-serial adapter supported by the OS.> I hope this clarifies things, no matter what configuration I use, I > either get the error messages on the gui and the nas beeps twice > with the above mentioned quotations or I get the one success in #6 > but it won't work.My overall impression is that the freenas UPS support needs more diagnostic information.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bobby Kent <bpkent at wholeworldwindow.net> wrote:> I?m not sure whether this is duplicate information, my mailbox was filled by > the attachments to your previous email.? Might be an idea to reduce the > resolution a little before sending (see attached), or using a service like > photobucket and provide a link ?Likewise, configuring your mailer not to send HTML is a good way to save mailbox space, too :-) -- - Charles Lepple
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bobby Kent <bpkent at wholeworldwindow.net> wrote:> Hi John, > > You should use the Linux command lsusb to find the USB Vendor and Product > Id, e.g.:I misspoke - apparently freenas is based on FreeBSD (who would have guessed from the name?!?) and I thought it was opensolaris based on the fragment of the ZFS copyright in the screenshot. I would agree with Bobby about the attachments, with the additional suggestion that if it's just textual information, please don't send it only as a graphic - it makes it harder for other people to search for information about that model.> ? I went into the gui and printed the syslog...I'm not sure how to read it > and I've included a picture of the bottom of my UPS...I'm unsure about a USB > vendor ID but I have the manual which I attached.Unfortunately, there is not much information about the UPS in syslog: Jun 27 12:01:33 frogger17a kernel: uhid0: <Belkin UPS, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2> on uhub0 What do you get when you run 'usbconfig' as root? Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable from the NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade, but I had a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x. -- - Charles Lepple